Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles

It might be retorted that, willy-nilly, we already, by general national consent, have accepted numerous external interests--embraced under the Monroe doctrine; and that, as rega...

And let it be carefully kept in mind that it is not the absolute right or wrong of the particular act, as seen in the clearer light of a later day, that justified men, whether i...

It may be due to the bias of personal or professional inclination that the present writer believes that military history,--including therein naval,--simply and clearly presented...

The result of the various movements so far narrated was to leave the Flying Squadron May 22nd, off Cienfuegos, and Admiral Sampson's division off Havana, on the 21st. The latter...

The military function of a navy is to control the sea, so far as the sea contributes to the maintenance of the war. The sea is the theatre of naval war; it is the field in which...

The movements, actual and projected, of the cruisers at this moment have purposely been dwelt upon at some length. Such movements and the management of them play a most importan...

The _Oregon_, therefore, was left a loose end, and was considered to be safer so than if more closely looked after. From the time she left Bahia till she arrived at Barbados, an...

Power, force, is a faculty of national life; one of the talents committed to nations by God. Like every other endowment of a complex organization, it must be held under control...

_First_, the view that the United States should plan its navy--in numbers and in sizes of ships--for defence only, rests upon a confusion of ideas--a political idea and a milita...

The question of keeping the armored division under Admiral Sampson in the immediate neighborhood of Havana, for the purpose of supporting the blockade by the lighter vessels, wa...

It was this consideration that brought the _Oregon_ from the Pacific to the Atlantic,--a movement initiated before hostilities opened, though not concluded until after they bega...

On the other hand, such an enterprise on our part, if directed against Spanish commerce on the seas, as was suggested by several excellent officers, would have had but a trivial...

The Navy Department did not, however, think that even a small chance of injury should be taken which could be avoided; and it may be remarked that, while the man is unfit for co...

It is true that in this estimate the writer quoted included the _Carlos V._, a new and high-powered armored cruiser, and also a number of protected cruisers and of torpedo vesse...

There is no saying of Napoleon's known to the writer more pregnant of the whole art and practice of war than this, "Exclusiveness of purpose is the secret of great successes and...

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Captain Mahan has been recognized by all competent judges, not merely as the most distinguished living writer on naval strategy, but as the originator and first exponent of what...